The Paradigm Shift to Prevention and Its Relationship to Dental Education

García, Raúl I.; Sohn, Woosung

doi:10.1002/j.0022-0337.2012.76.1.tb05232.x

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“…Participants in this study highlighted the lack of training within the university setting as a barrier to health promotion practice. This nding is supported by previous research (23,43,44). Studies, which have reported on the health promotion preparation of oral health professionals, have highlighted that the training focuses mainly on education or behaviour change approach, such as, providing oral hygiene instructions to patients in hospitals and delivering health education sessions (23,45,46).…”

Section: Barriers To Health Promotion Implementationsupporting

confidence: 73%

How oral health educators conceptualise health promotion: a qualitative study.

Bracksley-O'Grady¹,

Anderson²,

Masood³

2020

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Background: Dental diseases, dental caries and periodontal disease, place a significant burden on individual and population health level. These diseases are largely preventable; health promotion initiatives have been shown to decrease the disease rates. However, there is limited implementation of health promotion in dentistry, this could be due to a number of factors, the ethos and philosophy of dentistry is focused on a curative, individualised approach to oral diseases, there is confusion around health promotion as a concept. However, dental professionals are well placed to implement health promotion, but there is a lack of understanding about the training and what dental professionals understand about health promotion.The aim was to explore conceptualization of health promotion among oral health educators and identifying the barriers and opportunities for health promotion in practiceMethods: Nominal group technique (NGT), a highly structured face-to-face meeting, was conducted with 24 oral health educators to explore how they conceptualize health promotion and the barriers and opportunities for health promotion in practice. An additional 4 questions were emailed to oral health educators after the NGT to gather additional data, 6 oral health educators were involved. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis.Results: The oral health educators in this study discussed health promotion in a holistic way, however, health education and behaviour change were mentioned more than other aspects of health promotion. Collaboration with other health professionals and getting involved in already existing health promotion programs were the identified opportunities for health promotion practice. However, the barriers of health promotion practice were identified as the curative approach that underpins dentistry and the lack of funding, time and value placed on health promotion.Conclusions: This study moves beyond a problem describing to problem solving in this space. Collaboration with other health professionals is an opportunity to be capitalised on. However, to see the biggest improvement in health promotion the curative, individualised approach to dentistry needs to be challenged.

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Section: Barriers To Health Promotion Implementationsupporting

confidence: 73%

How oral health educators conceptualise health promotion: a qualitative study.

Bracksley-O'Grady¹,

Anderson²,

Masood³

2020

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“…The reorientation of oral health services toward prevention and health promotion is one of WHO's priority action areas for the continuous improvement of oral health 6 . However, despite the wealth of evidence supporting the application of preventive practices in primary dental care, these practices are not fully implemented 7 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluation of Saudi Dental Students’ Awareness About Preventive Dentistry

Allam¹

2018

Egyptian Dental Journal

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Aim: Knowledge and oral health behavior of dental students play an important role in oral health education of patients and community at large. It is therefore important that their own oral health behavior conforms to expectations of the population. Hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of future dental graduates towards preventive dentistry regarding gender and level of education. Materials and methods: The self-administered English-language structured questionnaire had two parts: The first part included gender and year of study. The second part included 9 questions to evaluate knowledge about preventive dentistry. The data were recorded and analyzed using the SPSS software. The level of statistical significance was set at P<0.05. Results: This cross-sectional study was performed on 207 dental students of King Saud University, dental college, Riyadh with a response rate of 80.5%. Majority of dental students were aware about the role of sugar in caries process. Generally, female students were more knowledgeable than male students in preventive dentistry. Fifth year students were more knowledgeable about the three fundamental issues of preventive dentistry, in comparison to fourth year students. Conclusions: Dental students of King Saud University Riyadh had a sufficient level of awareness about preventive dentistry but female students were not aware enough about the role of fluoride in the prevention of dental caries.

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confidence: 99%

“…Over the last few decades, dentistry has witnessed a paradigm shift from a surgical model to an evidence‐based medical model that is focused more on the diagnosis, early intervention and prevention of oral disease. Preventive care is argued as a foundational principle in modern dentistry. Newer patient‐management approaches, such as minimal intervention dentistry, encourage the least invasive treatment options, accommodating both prevention control and treatment principles.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%